Improved hold-back, for vehicles



v w.- H.GR0ESBECK.

Hold Back.

Patented May 10,1870.

`declare that the following is a full, description thereof, reference being had to the accomscrew at each end. l l

parte eine.

WILLIAM n.eRoEsBEoK. orQsARA'rocA SPRINGS, NEW Your.

Letters Patent No. 102,935, dat`ed May 10,1870.

, `IMPROVE HOLD-:suckUH ron vEHI'eLBs.

. v i The Schedule referredtolin these Letters Patent and making paxt of the same.'

To all lwhom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. Gnonsncu', of Saratoga' Springs, `in the'county of Saratoga and State'ot' ,New York,hare` invented certain new and useful Improvements in` Hold-backs; and I do hereby clear, and exact panyiug drawings and to the letters 'of reference marked thereon,whieh 'form a part of` this specification.- 1

'Ihe nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a metal hold-back to beattached to shafts of vehicles.

`In order to enable others skilledin the art to which my invention `appertains to make and use the same, Iwll now proceed to describe its construction and operation,'ret`erring to'the` annexed drawings, inl

which- Figure 1 is a'side -viewoi' ahorse, showing the application of my invention, and Figure 2 `is a lngitudiual vertical section of the holdbaek j y A represents Athe shaft of a vehicle, to the under side of which is secured a plate, B, by means of a From near the rear end ofthis plate, a hook, C,

being cast in one piece."

projects downward and forward, said hook and plate Near the front end of the plate B, in a slot' in the saine, is pivoted a tongue, D, the lower. end of which is pressed against thelower tiont end of the hook C l by the following means:

In a recess in the upper side of the plate Bis placed 'a rod, a, having a shoulder or enlargement, b, at its vi'ont end, which bears against a projecting shoulder, 4

d, on the upper end of the tongue D.

' Aound'the rod a is aspiral spring, e, which presses the rod forward, keeping the tongue D pressed against the hook C, as shown in fig. 2.

The tongue D is readily lifted forward,and the breeehing-strap of the harness hooked in thc-hook C, n

and the tongue D closes, holdingit there.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire toseeurc by Iiet- The tongue D, provided with projection d, in co1nbination with rod d., spiral spring c, hook C, and plate B, all constructed and arranged to operate as and for the purpose described. j

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, Iatiix my signature in' presence of two \vit.

nesses.

Witnesses:

J. S. B. Scotrr, J. W. EIGHMY. 

